15 cities oppose Patriot Act by Law

[Valkyrie]

The Patriot Act allows police to arrest and detain indefinitely any American suspected of terrorism, for instance, as well as detention of immigrants without disclosure of their names. It also allows "sneak and peek" searches of suspects' homes without subsequent notification of the searches, collection of personal information such as Web surfing habits and the forcing of librarians, booksellers and video shop proprietors to turn over patron records to federal investigators when asked.

Executive orders enacted independently by President Bush or Attorney General John Ashcroft in the past year include a new guideline allowing FBI agents to conduct surveillance of domestic political and religious groups, and a rule permitting the government to arrest and sequester people considered terrorist suspects.

RESOLVED AGAINST PATRIOT ACT

Eugene is the 15th local government in the United States to pass a resolution opposing the USA Patriot Act.

* 1. Ann Arbor, Mich.

* 2. Denver

* 3. Amherst, Mass.

* 4. Leverett, Mass.

* 5. North Hampton, Mass.

* 6. Cambridge, Mass.

* 7. Carrboro, N.C.

* 8. Boulder, Colo.

* 9. Madison, Wis.

* 10. Berkeley, Calif.

* 11. Alachua County, Fla.

* 12. Takoma Park, Md.

* 13. Santa Fe, N.M.

* 14. Santa Cruz, Calif.

* 15. Eugene

- Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Florence, Mass.

See www.bordc.org for more information.


http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/12.09E.15.us.usapa.htm

[truthaddict11]

thats great we need more american cities against it!

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

I am strongly opposed to this barbaric, hypocritical law. Is America becoming intolerant? Is the tolerance level so damn low? This measure highly detracts from our (American resident's) privacy and will cause the terrorists only to be more cautious.

I mean, can you just imagine some terrorists saying, "We palned to meet at the appartment of Muhhamed at eight o'clock to plan our strike on the seven major American cities, small-pox attacks, atomic bomb attacks, and threats. As well as discusssing our next wave of anthrax-infected threat letters. But we won't be able to because of Bush's new Patriot Act, hmm, oh well, I guess we can just forget about destroying the American way of life."
Can you picture that? Probably not, this law will do nothing except piss off Americans.

[Borincano]

It's funny how Dubuya and his racist pal, Ashycroft, disguised the true contents of the law by calling it the Patriot Act, as if it's the duty of every USA citizen to give up their privacy and dignity to the USA gov't. I hope larger and more famous cities join in the struggle against this idiotic and unconstitutional law.

(Edited by Borincano at 12:34 am on Dec. 13, 2002)